Kerrang! faves High On Fire, In Case Of Fire, Sign, Johnny Truant and Annotations Of An Autopsy are the latest bands to be confirmed for this year's K!-sponsored Download festival.
Also added to the bill is UK grime star Lethal Bizzle, who teamed-up with Gallows for their recent cover of The Rutt's Staring At The Rudeboys.
The Kerrang!-sponsored Download festival will be headlined by: Kiss, The Offspring and Lostprophets.
The full list of other bands on the bill so far is as follows:
36 Crazy Fists, A Day To Remember, Ace Frehley, Airbourne, Alesana, Alter Bridge, Amon Amarth, Animal Alpha, Annotations Of An, Apocalyptica, Army Of Freshmen, Ash, August Burns Red, Beat Union, Between The Buried And Me, Biffy Clyro, Big Linda, Black Stone Cherry, Black Tide, Blackhole, Bleeding Through, Brigade, Bullet For My Valentine, Caimbo, Canterbury, Cavalera Conspiracy, Children Of Bodom, Chiodos, Coheed & Cambria, Comeback Kid, Cry for Silence, Disturbed, Elliot Minor, Exit Ten, Fighting With Wire, Fightstar, Finger Eleven, From First To Last, Galvatrons, Glamour Of The Kill, Haunts, High On Fire, HIM, Hostile, In Case Of Fire, In Flames, Incubus, Invasion, Jimmy Eat World, Job For A Cowboy, Johnny Truant, Jonathan Davis, Judas Priest, Kid Rock, Kids In Glass Houses, Kill Hannah, Last Supper, Lethal Bizzle, Madina Lake, Malefice, Mexicolas, Motorhead, Municipal Waste, Pendulum, Rise Against, Rival Schools, Rolo Tomassi, Rose Tattoo, Saxon, Seether, Sign, Simple Plan, Slaves To Gravity, Sons Of Albion, Stone Gods, Testament, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Devil Wears Prada, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Fall Of Troy, The Haze, The Subways, The Wildhearts, Throwdown, Trigger The Bloodshed, Twin Method, Valient Thorr, Within Temptation and Zebrahead.
The Download festival takes place the weekend of June 13 to June 15. Tickets are on sale now. Prices are as follows: a full weekend ticket: £130, standard camping: £20, camper van: £40, family zone camping: £20, lockers: £11, parking £10 in advance or £15 on the day. There will be a variety of ticket packages available to buy, including the RIP packages (a VIP package) from £315. For Club or VIP Experience packages, please call 020 7009 3484 to discuss your requirements.
Disabled customers can call 0121 767 9729 to discuss accessibility arrangements. Please note, disabled customers will be provided with one free ticket for their helper, where required. Should additional helper tickets be required, please call the disabled access ticket line on 0121 767 9729 or email access@downloadfestival.co.uk
One word BOLLOCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Dead_666 | May 12, 2008 4:20 PM | Reply to this
K! this was annouced like last thursday on download festival website
god you are really slow these days like
n Green Day Gurl, its not a bad lineup have you seen who is Playing Download, i mean fair enough there are some small n useless bands but thats just to fill up the tages i mean look at this list
KISS
JUDAS PRIEST
PROPHETS
MOTORHEAD
BULLET
H-I-M
DISTURBED
THE OFFSPRING
CHILDREN OF BODOM
CAVALERA CONSPIRICY
ALTER BRIDGE
IN FLAMES
SAXON
JOHNNY TRUANT
it's still a very good fest rangin from metal to classic rock
this is a really good lineup n there is still rom for one or two more big bands
few more for the 2nd n main stage to be anounced
so i n think it's gonna be a good weekend n only 4 weeks away now, starting to get excited
should be a good piss up weekend at donninton
xx
Posted by Ryan Devlin | May 12, 2008 4:26 PM | Reply to this
WTF!?
What in the name of Lucifer's red bollocks is LETHAL BIZZLE doing on the bill!?
This has got to be some kind of joke right?
Good on you for getting High On Fire, In Case Of Fire and Sign though :D
i agree with Ryan Devlin
it should be an AWESOME piss up weekend!
and a good arm excersise too!
some of those bands being Simple Plan and Lethal Bizzle XD
should be GREAT fun
cant wait to see Bullet For My Valentine, Black Tide and Kids In Glass Houses!
should be good!
x
Posted by Zakk Stocker | May 12, 2008 4:53 PM | Reply to this
HA HA
i agree with Ryan Devlin
it should be an AWESOME piss up weekend!
and a good arm excersise too!
some of those bands being Simple Plan and Lethal Bizzle XD
should be GREAT fun
cant wait to see Bullet For My Valentine, Black Tide and Kids In Glass Houses!
should be good!
x
Posted by Zakk Stocker | May 12, 2008 4:53 PM | Reply to this
HA HA
i agree with Ryan Devlin
it should be an AWESOME piss up weekend!
and a good arm excersise too!
some of those bands being Simple Plan and Lethal Bizzle XD
should be GREAT fun
cant wait to see Bullet For My Valentine, Black Tide and Kids In Glass Houses!
should be good!
x
Posted by Zakk Stocker | May 12, 2008 4:53 PM | Reply to this
HA HA
i agree with Ryan Devlin
it should be an AWESOME piss up weekend!
and a good arm excersise too!
some of those bands being Simple Plan and Lethal Bizzle XD
should be GREAT fun
cant wait to see Bullet For My Valentine, Black Tide and Kids In Glass Houses!
should be good!
x
Posted by Zakk Stocker | May 12, 2008 4:54 PM | Reply to this
HA HA
i agree with Ryan Devlin
it should be an AWESOME piss up weekend!
and a good arm excersise too!
some of those bands being Simple Plan and Lethal Bizzle XD
should be GREAT fun
cant wait to see Bullet For My Valentine, Black Tide and Kids In Glass Houses!
should be good!
x
Posted by Zakk Stocker | May 12, 2008 4:54 PM | Reply to this
OOPS
soz about the multi comments :S
x
Posted by Zakkk Stocker | May 12, 2008 4:55 PM | Reply to this
since this was anounced earlier this week will there still be anuther annoucment tonight??? jw
Posted by sam | May 12, 2008 5:00 PM | Reply to this
Green Day Gurl, shut the hell up. You've obivously not taken the time to listen to all those bands, all while living in that bubble you like to call an open mind...honestly.
High On Fire - one of the best additions yet! Could be clashing with Disturbed or Motorhead though, that wouldn't be too good.
The rest of the bands are a bit hit and miss - but this weekend is going to be awesome, much more rocking than anything Glastonbury or Leeds/Reading can ever provide!
Posted by Peter | May 12, 2008 5:42 PM | Reply to this
lol lol lol
L' Bizzle
;]
good times
will be checking that out....
ha!
x
Posted by Poppy | May 12, 2008 5:52 PM | Reply to this
No comment.
Posted by Loz | May 12, 2008 6:10 PM | Reply to this
madina lake (L)
Posted by TownTime | May 12, 2008 6:36 PM | Reply to this
Lethal Bizzle?
Oh man, I am so glad I'm going to Leeds instead.
i hope you relaise Lethal Bizzle is also playing at Reading n Leeds! tht festival is full of shit indie bands plus like 4-5 good bands, download shits all over it
Posted by sam | May 12, 2008 11:40 PM | Reply to this
i hope you realise that Lethal Bizzle is playing at Leeds too? tht festival is just a shitload of piss poor indie bands with like 4 or 5 good bands, download shits all over it
Posted by sam | May 12, 2008 11:42 PM | Reply to this
Reading & Leeds
only 4 or 5 good bands playing?
Metallica
Rage Against The Machine
Queens Of The Stoneage
Biffy Clyro
Slipknot
Tenacious D
Avenged Sevenfold
Taking Back Sunday
Anti Flag
Bullet For My Valentine
Feeder
Dropkick Murphys
Alexisonfire
Gallows
Alkaline Trio
Less Than Jake
Kids In Glass Houses
Pennywise
Set Your Goals
Fucked Up
Cancer Bats
Goldfinger
Thrice
..... the list goes on. I don't like all of those bands, but they're all bands that get covered in Kerrang.
Reading and Leeds has always had a mixture of different bands from different genres, because people who go there have open minds and like to check out bands from all types of music.
Lethal Bizzle is fucking quality live aswel, he doesn't glorify guns or any of the bad shit you get with American 'Gansta rappers', he's a down to earth guy making quality music, so what if he's out of place on the download bill?? there's stranger acts on there (Elliot Minor anyone?)
Just get over the fact that Download has decided to diverse a bit away from the label of 'METAL FEST'
Lol.!
Download this year is awful.!
Only decent bands are Bullet and Biffy!
And their at Leeds haha!
Leeds and reading is so much better.!
We have slipknot you have elliot minor LOL
We have the greatest thrash metal band ever (Metallica). you have job for a cowboy
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
Posted by simon | May 13, 2008 9:36 AM | Reply to this
Metallica saved their best festival performance for Download 2006 when they did Master of Puppets in full.
And, about that greatest thrash band thing...Download has Testament, who, no disrespect to Metallica as I'm a big fan of them, never changed and stayed true to themselves and to their fans and are now back with a major vengeance. Testament, quite simply, thrash more than Metallica. So there.
Posted by Peter | May 13, 2008 5:52 PM | Reply to this
There are plenty of bands playing download that are way better than bfmv and biffy clyro. They are two of the most boring bands there! Just because you haven't heard a band doesn't make them awful!
Posted by jon | May 13, 2008 10:45 AM | Reply to this
true
fair point
although i'd disagree with Biffy being boring. They're amazing live, sure they'll play some of their older heavier stuff at download aswel.
Can't see why people argue about one festival being better than the other? If i could, i'd go to both!! there's an equal amount of bands playing each i'd love to see, most relatively new aswel.
Download will get slipknot to headline next year so don't worry!
Sorry, should have said i personally find biffy clyro boring. I was just making the point that people (like simon) are moaning about the lineup when they probably don't know that much about bands on it. I'm not going to moan that bfmv and biffy clyro are playing as they obviously appeal to a lot of people. The point i'm making is before people moan about the lineup they should check the bands out! There are a lot of decent bands out there people haven't heard of and just because they don't have a huge following they are not awful!
Posted by jon | May 14, 2008 12:59 PM | Reply to this
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I didn't see the Gallows playing on the list, so why is Lethal Bizzle there? How i see it is tht he is going to get bottled off the stage. Better get your armour, Lethal Bizzle! Other than that, Download line-up looks gr8, nd yer, i think BFMV and Biffy Clyro are amazing. I shall watch on TV :D
I didn't see the Gallows playing on the list, so why is Lethal Bizzle there? How i see it is tht he is going to get bottled off the stage. Better get your armour, Lethal Bizzle! Other than that, Download line-up looks gr8, nd yer, i think BFMV and Biffy Clyro are amazing. I shall watch on TV :D
Who gives a fuck if Lethal Bizzle is playing, go & see someone else. fair enough they could have booked someone better but hey fuck it theres still shit loads of decent bands playing anyway Comeback Kid, Dillinger Escape Plan, Bleeding Through, Job For A Cowboy, August Burns Red, Between The Buried And Me to name but a few.
Posted by jonnyboy | May 14, 2008 6:19 PM | Reply to this
Download lineup
Lethal Bizzle - WHAT THE FUCK
i think pendulum and bullet for my valentine on at the same time =(
oh well will just have to catch bullet at reading festival XD
Kerrang! faves High On Fire, In Case Of Fire, Sign, Johnny Truant and Annotations Of An Autopsy are the latest bands to be confirmed for this year's K!-sponsored Download festival.
It's amazing. 
